I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
HINNAH MIANHe reminds me of the shadow between silences.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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I always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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